Pseudonebularia chrysalis

Pseudonebularia chrysalis, common name the chrysalis mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

Pseudonebularia chrysalis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Pseudonebularia
Species:
P. chrysalis
Binomial name
Pseudonebularia chrysalis
(Reeve, 1844)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra chrysalis Reeve, 1844
  • Mitra caledonica Récluz, C., 1853
  • Mitra buryi Melvill, J.C. & E. R. Sykes, 1899
  • Strigatella buryi Melville & Sykes

Description

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The shell size varies between 12 mm and 30 mm.

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, the Mascarene basin and Tanzania; in the Pacific Ocean off the Philippines, Indonesia, Okinawa, Papua New Guinea and Australia.

References

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  1. ^ a b Pseudonebularia chrysalis (Reeve, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 December 2018.
  • Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 402
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
  • Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp
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